about the lecturer

David Hendin is an adjunct curator at the American Numismatic Society. He is a specialist in weights and currency of the ancient Levant, especially Judaean and biblical, Toman provincial, and Nabataean coins. hendin is author of Guide to Biblical Coins, now in its fifth edition, the newly released Cultural Change: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Coins of the Holy Land, and hundreds of numismatic articles in scholarly journals. he has served as numismatist for archaeological excavations at Sepphoris, Israel under the auspices of Duke University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hendin lectures frequently on Biblical related numismatics at educational institutions and conventions.